South Carolina General Assembly
108th Session, 1989-1990

Bill 3114

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               3114
Ratification Number:       16
Act Number                 11
Introducing Body:          House
Subject:                   Ratifying an amendment to the
                           Constitution relating to amendment and
                           revision of the Constitution in 1990
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(A11, R16, H3114)

AN ACT TO RATIFY AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1, ARTICLE XVI OF THE CONSTITUTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1895, RELATING TO AMENDMENT AND REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT PROPOSALS MAY BE MADE FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION YEAR 1990 FOR THE REVISION OF AN ENTIRE ARTICLE OR THE ADDITION OF A NEW ARTICLE IN A SINGLE AMENDMENT PROPOSAL, WHICH PROPOSAL MAY CHANGE PROVISIONS FROM OTHER ARTICLES IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Amendments to constitution

SECTION 1. The amendment to Section 1, Article XVI of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, prepared under the terms of Joint Resolution 691 of 1988, having been submitted to the qualified electors at the general election of 1988 as prescribed in Section 1, Article XVI of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, and a favorable vote having been received on the amendment, is ratified and declared to be a part of the Constitution so that Section 1 of Article XVI is amended to read:

"Section 1. Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in the Senate or House of Representatives. However, for the general election in 1990, revision of an entire article or the addition of a new article may be proposed as a single amendment with only one question being required to be submitted to the electors. The amendment may delete, revise, and transpose provisions from other articles of the Constitution provided the provisions are germane to the subject matter of the article being revised or being proposed. If it is agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each House, the amendment or amendments must be entered on the Journals respectively, with the yeas and nays taken on it and must be submitted to the qualified electors of the State at the next general election for Representatives. If a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly voting on the question vote in favor of the amendment or amendments and a majority of each branch of the next General Assembly, after the election and before another, ratify the amendment or amendments, by yeas and nays, they become part of the Constitution. The amendment or amendments must be read three times, on three several days, in each House."